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HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1910.
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Calumet Region Baseball League is
1 aken up in Hammond and may Become Northern Ind. League
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Hammond, Gary, East Chi cago, Crown Point and Valpo Interested.
Sunday league baseball is one of
the possibilities of the coming bas
ball season in the Calumet region.
The initiative has been taken by the
aammond Athletic association, which is recognized as the leader in all lines
of athletic sports in this locality. The plan for the formation of a baseball league among the neighboring cities of the region for the purpose of playing Sunday ball is being promoted by Walter Sohl, chairman of the board of athletics of the Hammond association. MAX V TOWNS CONSIDERED. Charles Kctchell is the manager of
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M. C.-Erie Difficulties, Are Nicely Settled and Steam Suburban Will Be Enabled to Come to Stop at Michigan Central Depot.
The difficulties between the Michigan Central and .the Kile railroads regarding the location of the electric interlocker at the Hohman street crossing have been removed, and it Is un
derstood that the interlocker will be built as soon as the weather modifies.
The building of the Interlocker will
S FRANCHISE PROPOSITION
H., W. & E. C. Has Had in Contemplation for Over a Year Building of Branch
Line, Before Gary & Inter urban Considered It.
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Manager Green of the Hammond. Whiting & East Chicago Electric railway denies absolutely that he only asked for a franchise over the Kane avenue, - Gibson viaduct and Forsythe avenue route to East Chicago when he heard that the Gary & Interurban line was after the same route. Mr. Green claims that he has been contemplating the building of a branch over this route for over a year, and has only been deterred from asking for a franchise by the fact that his company has not until recently been in a position to make necessary extensions. Now that the Hammond line has plenty of backing behind it, and is ready to begin its program of rehabilitation and extension, and it will ask for the franchise over the new route to East Chicago. A Five-Cent Fare. Mr. Green points out that it would be better for the people of Hammond that his company should get the franchise for the reason that the residents
of the city all along the route of his-A
line from the Standard Steel district
to the corners of State and Hohman streets and from all sections of the north side would be able to go to East Chicago for a 5-cen't fare, while the Gary & Interurban line would pick
un-'pasBeng4r only at the corners of
ONE KILLED SEVERAL, ISJTRED. (Spciai to Thb Times.) Chicago, Jan. 11. The sidewalk on the State street side of the Boston store caved in at noon today while a large number of -persons were standing on it. It Is reported that a number of persons have been been killed. Call has been sent for many ambulances. The police an- , nounced that one person had been found under the sidewalk dead and four seriously injured. Thirty persons went down when the sidewalk fell. It is not known whether any others were killed. Later. Reports from Chicago indicate that there were no Hammond, Indiana, Harbor or Gary people Injured in the accident which oocured in front of the Boston store when the sidewalk caved in and killed one person and injured several others. The Chicago Tribune reports that the accident Is "ot as bad as was reported at firs, and one man killed and one InjurX with several slight, ly injured is the result of the fall of the sldezalk.
ICE CROP HUB THIS YEAR
G. H. Hammond Co. Will Put Up Two More NewBuildings to Take Care of Immense Ice Crop Being Harvested at Wolf Lake.
BOYVILLE'UDS
Times Secures Names of Boys Who Frequent Various Poolrooms in . Hammond Quite Regularly
BIOFAT
STANDARD
STEEL CARJSTBICT Four Greeks Are Placed Under Arrest at Conclusion of Celebration.
TRIAL CONTINUED TILL SAT.
Takes Four Hammond Policemen and
at That They Have Their Hands Full.
It was all; wrong.
Thb Timbss in. Its issue yesterday had ords oLf"?"i ;for the. rMers
The G. H. Hammond company is
I contemplating the erection of two new Ice houses to enable it to put up more
ice this winter. The work on the two new buildings, which will be 150x200 feet in dimensions and will cost $75,000, will begin at onme if the weather modifies sufficiently. The new buiding ' will be located along Sheffield avenue, just north of the icehouse now ownel by this company. The ground is already staked off and the building of these new ice houses will be' determined by the weather. , Forty Thousand Put Away. The G. H. Hammond company has already put away about 40,000 tons of ice, and it is believed that If the other icehouses can be built and filled this winter the saving in the freight that will be effected as a result of securing a supply so near the place of consumption will be enormous. The present icehouse Is full, and If it is decided to build the other icehouses this fall they will be filled as fast as the walls rise. By the time they are ready for the roof they will be full, and the roof will simply be put on for protection from the sun. . . Plenty of lee Harvested. It is estimated that, the Knicker
bocker-Ice company; hais put; up 150,000
OXE MAX ARRESTED. Martin Tark of the firm of Avery & Tark, which conducts the Bijou poolroom, on State street, was placed under arrest this afternoon, a warrant having been issued by Chief Austgen, who charges Tark with having permitted minors in his place. Tark was released on his own recognizance to appear before Judge Barnett next Saturday morning. There is said to be evidence that Tark not only permitted minors in his place, but permitted them to play pool and gamble on the results of the game, he himself acting s stakeholder. .
HAMMOND PEOPLE TO FLYSOUTHVARD Hohmans, Motts and Jewels Will Sojourn for Time in Cuba.
Three Hammond families are planning a trip to Cuba In the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hohman leave today for Day tona, Fla., " after
ward ...wiU. go- to Cuba.
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The Hammond boys arg-' V a great deal easier to MT tf' In baseball wJ,enthr'Je th,a " ,S If there Is riva iVele grouse interest of the varlou- J is a contest on. will he -j IPP"1 ' between the teams ,-stnis aft''"'" Clles of the region there uo"' sure to be a great deal of interest taken in the games. The trouble with baseball in Hammond, th'ey argue, is that there has never been a league organized and a schedule of games adopted. ' It is thought that this will eventually lead to the formation of a permanent Inter-city league. Baseball is always a popular game and not In years has Hammond been represented by a high class team which has received the support It merited. Word has been received from Gary that the fans there would only too soon welcome a movement of this kind. It is hoped that through the Hammond Athletic association that such a team may be organized and under the stimulous of a league contest may receive the support of the fans of the city.
fJie to procetu oniy to Calumft avnue, will be operated through to Calumet Park, and will step at the Michigan CentraJ depot, Hammond. This will give Hammond another means of travel to Gary. The interlocker will also make possible the utilization of the two extra tracks that have been built through the city by the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad and will insure better freight service for the region. The exact location of the electric interlocker has not been established, but it is thought that it will be built between the Erie and Monon tracks on ten north side of the Michigan Central railroad. , Cut Out Erie Yards. This would simplify the railroad proposition in Hammond so that there would really be only two lines of tracks through the city. The Erie yards, which cut the city in twain, would be eliminated and would be moved to the outskirts of the city, as would the objectionable coal storage warehouse. The land occupied by the Erie yards would pay the cost of re-
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WESTERN GAR FOUNDRY GO. BIG DEAL JUST CLOSED
It is reported in .Hammond today that the Pressed Steel Car company has purchased the plant of the Western Steel Car & Foundry company, just across the state line, and will at once begin the rehabilitation and enlargement of the plant on a large scale. This means that the Pressed Steel Car company will have a lant In the west for the purpose of suppply the western trade. The deal Is said to have been put through last Friday at New York city. Frank N. Hostadt. president of the Pressed Steel Car company, which op?rates plants in Pittsburg, Alleghany, McKees Rooks and Montreal, Canada, acquired by purchase the entire McCord & Co.'s Interest in tHV property of the Western Steel Car & Foundry Co.'s plants in Hegewiseh, Joliet and Anniston, Ala. Xorr Owm Whole Plant. McCord & Co. had a one-third interest in the Western Steel Car & Foundry company and the Pressed Steel Car company owned the remaining twothirds interest. Some time ago it was rumored that President Hoffstadt was looking for a site for a plant in the west. This, followed the labor troubles that the company had at McKees Rocks. There was considerable speculation in Hammond and In Hegewiseh as to where this plant would be located. It was hinted at the time that the Pressed Steel Car company was contemplating the purchase of the remaining onethird interest in the Western Steel Car & Foundry company for the past two years. Previous to that time Mr. McCord operated the Hegewiseh plant. It is understood that the sale is en
tirely satisfactory to the McCords, who are now entirely out of the car manufacturing business, and will devote their time to the automobile and railroad supply business. 1 The sale of the plant is of great Interest to the people of Hegewiseh and Burnham for the reason that this is the only plant the Pressed Steel Car company will maintain in the west. Have Spent 91,500,000. During the last four years there have been in the neighborhood of $1,500,000 spent in new buildings and machinery, and it is understood that the company is now having- plans and specifications drawn for further enlargments on a vast scale. It is reported that there will be upwards of $200,000 spent on new buildings this winter. Every effort will be made to make this plant one of the most up-to-date, if not the largest, in the country. It is said that the Hegewiseh plant already has orders for 6,200 cars on its books, which will be built during the coming year at a cost of $7,000,000. Real estate men in Burnham and Hegewiseh expect a great amount of building activity in the spring, and an active real estate market as a result.
2 Mott ;wllt le-Xil tnager Green says, furthermore, Khelr good behavior during their holi-Ihave a capacity of about StJ.dW tons, j 22nd of th's month for Daytona, Fla., i
CRUSADE EFFECTIVE Gambling Games Have Been Permitted in Opera House Poolroom.
The Times has the names of a larga number of minors who last night frequented various pool rooms in the city. They were present in spite o the fact that it is an open violation of the law for minors to frequent these places. Some of these boys were officials of Boyville who recently passed a bill making it a misdemeanor ffr any cititzen of Boyville" to frequent pool and billiard rooms. The pool room in the old Holimaa Opera House, which has been the hand-out for a large number of young tou w-cgke fiends, loafers' and dice
at ti neu -out, tast hud.
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that there will be no delay In the building of this line similar to that which has occured in the building of the Gary & Interurban line in Hammond. Mr. Green points out that the Gary & Interurban people have been compelled to ask the Hammond city council for extension after extension of time for the purpose of completing their line. Green says that his company will agree to build the East Chicago extension in six months and will have it constructed in that time or forfeit its franchise. He says that this is surely an evidence that his company means business. And so the various interurban companie are appealing to the city for favors, and the present administration Is presented with an exceedingly complex problem of how best to conserve the interests of the city.
, Decision Pending. Judge Virgil S. Reiter has not yet rendered his decision in the St. John mandamus case, in which -the people of that locality are warring over the matter of providing transportation facilities to and from the public schools.
; TnnsS "AD" SELLERS."
iTTl 1EYER
SAYS HE IS MALIGNED
Attorney F. J. Lewis Meyer was in Hammond today and stated that the report as printed in the Lake County Democrat to the effect that he had been approached by certain councllmen who wanted graft before they would vote for his franchise, is untrue, and that he will send a communication to the city council here stating that the facts as printed in this paper are untrue. He stated that the only members of the old council with whom he had talked, about the matter were Councllmen Kane and Schroeter, and he remarked that they were above suspicion. He said that he had not taken the matter up with any of the members of the new council. He did intimate, however, that a certain man had approached him and informed him that he could deliver a vote or votes in the council, but that he had paid no attention to the fellow. Mr. Meyer desires to say for publication that no city official has approached him and that the article he refers to had placed him in a very bad light tn the eyes of the councllmen. Mr. Meyer says that Mayor Becker favors his franchise and that he believes that he . will get a square deal from the Hammond city council.
Sets Date for Meetings. The Hammond Medical society has decided to hold meetings twice a month. Its meetings are scheduled for the first and Third Tuesdays of the month. There is considerable interest taken In the new society since the election, and it is expected that the new society will prove a great boon to the members of the medical profession in Ham-
aays, but it was all wrong. Riot, bloody riot, prevailed last night when Slav met Greek, the Issue being a stolen rooster. Four Greeks were placed under ar
rest, and there being no police patrol
According to the Chicago newspapers,
the price of ice will take a big tumble next year. s What effect this Will have upon the Hammond Pure Ice company, which claims that it never paid dividends
wagon In the city it was necessary for , even when the prices were raised last the police to hire a livery rig to bring' year to those of the Knickerbocker
in the prisoners. Their trial has been
continued by Judge Barnett until next Saturday. The men placed under arrest are AlInko Kokosh of company house 126; Petro Tsoudis of company house 156; Janisko Tobardish, also of company house 156, and Theodore Tsoudis of the same place. The witnesses live in company house 157. They are Mike Solan and his boarders, Tony Garko, Joe German and Harry Grotinski. In addition to these there are special Officers Meyers and Peering. Theodore TmourMx the Leader. For a time the four Hammond po lieemen, Bunde, Miller, Homrick and Frenck. had their hands full to get
ict trust, remains to be seen. If It is still able to compete with the promised reduction in prices which the Knickerbocker people will make next year, an idea of the profits that this concern has made will be had. Bill Thompson, who has charge of the G. H. Hammond company's icehouse at Sheffield avenue and Wolf lake, says that he has had no difficulty In getting men to harvest ice this fall.
tConuruea on page nve. SET FIRE T0P00L TABLE Merrillville in Throes of a New Religious Revival.
(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Jan. 11. Reports from our sister town of the north tells of queer and unusual happenings transpiring in that bailiwick. The village of Merrillville, In the throes of a recent religious upheaval and revival, so report goes, has been putting Itself on the map In no uncertain manner, and the cleansing of the inhabitants of their worldly sins and vices has become a thing of only momentary Importance. However, according to history, the inhabitants of the town last Saturday evening gathered in front of one of the business places, according to a prearranged program, and after setting fire to a pool table, furnished for the occasion by its owner, held their revival by the light of the burning embers of the worldly piece of furniture. Not having seen the light In the sky, the story cannot be vouched for, but such is the report circulated here concerning the religious frenzy which has taken root there, and only confirms the assertion made by our own Hiram Barton that great things would be accomplished and done during the present revival.
BOmBERGEFE WORKING III HEW IDEAS
Take Steps Today. Steps were taken today by Chairman F. Richard Schaaf and Secretary Fred Crumpacker to call for the organization of the party in this city on the 29th of this month. The republicans are expected to meet in their respective townships or wards, as have been determined under the rules that wee adopted at the recent meeting of the state central committee, for the eiecion of precinct commiteemen and for he election of delegates and alternates to the district convention-
It is understood that Attorney L. L. Bombcrger has some very interesting ideas on the question of track elevation. If Bomberger had his way he would have only two sets of tracks running through the city of Hammond. He would have the Nickel Plate railroad change its route in the vicinity of the Standard Steel Car plant. It would run north to the right of way of the Michigan Central railroad and through the city of Hammond on the Michigan Central's right of way. This would eliminate one of the railroads that are cutting the city into a crazy quilt. He further plans to have the Erie railroad follow the route of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville from a point where the right of way parallel to the point where the C, C. & L crosses the monon, and then the Erie railroad would parallel the Alonon through the built-up portion of the city.
NJURY REPEATS SELF
(Special to The Time) St. John, Ind., Jan. 11. Bad luck is persistently following Mrs. L Schmal of this place. For a second time she is confined to the sick room owing to an injury to her foot. Mrs. Schmal had not fully recovered from a fall she sustained two years ago when she fell through a trap door into the cellar. Her foot had never fully recovered, although she was able to use it to some extent. Recently she made another unfortunate step, causing an injury to the same foot. The foot is now quite seriously injured and required the attention of a physician.
WOHK-WAXTERS THE TIMES.
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where they' will oin Mr. and Mrs. Hoh
mon. The party of four will take the famous East Coast railroad to Key West, where they will take a steamer for Havana. The East Coast railroad is built on a concrete roadbed over the Florida Keys, and the keys are connected with hundreds of concrete bridges, mcny of which are several miles long. The
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place and he was finally forced to clean up. But whlV - the class of young men who have been loafing in this place was much lower than in the other places, there were minors admitted to other
' pollrooms in the city.
-MIXORS I'ltEtUKXT THKH ALIThere were, a number of young men under the age of 21 who visited other
is said to be one of the most wonderful Poolrooomh. engineering feats of recent times. It i 14 may be said that in neither of the) enables the passenger trains of the last mentioned places is "crap . shootEast Coast railroad to run directly into lnS" allowed. Key West, where it was only possible 14 is reported, however, that a young
to go by boat to Havana. It is also understood that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jewell will go to Havana about the 20th of this month. This will make three Hammond families who expect
man was playing pool for money in the
State street place, that the proprietor paid the winnings over to the wrong young man and that the youth, who thought he had been wronged, com-
to spend from four to six weeks in the plained to the police, who told him that
Cuban capital. F. S. Betz, the Hammond surgical instrument manufacturer, is also contemplating a trip to the tropical zone. Mr. Betz, however, expects to go through Mexico and will make an inspection of the Panama canal. His trip will also include a number of th southern states.
if he wapted to start anything ho would have to swear out a warrant against thi proprietor of the place. This report, however, cannot be coufirmed. CRAP SIIOOTINO ALLOWED. - It is a well known fact, however, that there has been crap shooting going;
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iRTH SIDE CITIZENS HOLD VERY IMPORTANT 1EE1G
By assessing 14,000 lots on the north side $5 apiece for sewer and an additional $2 for a sewer pumping station, J J 00,000 can be raised for a sewage s. tern for the whole north side which, iiv he opinion of many, will solve the proolem for all time to come. Plans for this big project were promulgated last night at the meeting of the North Side Improvement association, the initiative having been taken by J. A. Aubry, the north side druggist, who has given much of his own time in arranging facts and preparing figures to show that the project would be feasible. Other, matters came before the association, among them the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the discussion of the problem of more homes for the north side. The session was replete with interest to the north side property owner, and while there was a representative attendance It might have been even larger. The North Sider's Viewpoint. While no concerted action was takeh in the, .natter of the home problem, there was sufficient sentiment voiced to show that the association does not favor the Betz idea of home building in Hammond. In explanation it might be inserted that the Betz idea, as outlined by F. S. Betz before the Hammond Business Men's association recently, would give the deserving man who is desirous of locating in Hammond a lot and a two-room building on the rear of it at practically cost price, and on terms which should not make the payments hard. By putting this property In the hands of deserving
people the hope was expressed tha' tha ambition of the laboring man would induce him to make the two-room building only a temporary home, which lie would in the course of time replace with a more pretentious one. In connection it was proposed that a home building syndicate be organized which, should set the movement on foot. AVant North Side Plan Tried Flrwt. The north siders. however, , judging1 from expressions h-nrd at the meeting last night and also previous to that, are not in favor ,t stocking up the north side with a la?s of people that would be satisfied to live in two-room houses. They say that if the matter is rightlyy handled the big north side property owners who live out of town can be induced to Invest additional capital to improvt- their vacant lots witli cottages. They argue further, that as long as neither the Betz idea nor their plan has been tried in Hammond, that theirs should be tried first before thai Betz idea Is given endorsement. Aobry ll.tw Itellable Kfjiure. As to the cross-town sewer for thj north side, Mr. Aubry had secured quite reliable figures from two of Hammond's leading sewer contractors. The plan of the cross-town sewer is practically the same as that proposed by former Mayor A. F. Knotts years ago. Mr. Aubry outlined the plans at tha meeting last nih'a as follows: The location of a sower pumping station at Calumet avenue and 149th street. This location would afford ample space, not only for the pumping staLion but for the filtering bods as well. Taking the proposed pumping station as a basis.
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